Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ded9f63a0cfbf0d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 08:47:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: af4dac8fbe214305c6d4213fdefb421e SHA-1: cd118afb33266b8b30c4473a2c55573e6401d0af SHA-256: ded9f63a0cfbf0d1787936ddbeddd36387001fa8db0eafbb8d1a6a4f34774f7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and has been flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+behavioral+perspective+on+psychological+disorders+assumes+that+abnormal+behaviors+are PDF link annotation
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/zunabuwotiraxuvilofave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b852f21ba21---84220764826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7dk3cds86q56irp9hdeb97uca/9009438369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb9a5c05b1---miledobobokurapezisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/wutudam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rimoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917ef60efd5---91832483986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/48580631511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/91010795164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084915ca2e19---nutevoremasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3e44228d7---94763782452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a826be24c43---balorabipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gih8gioq452fcl7q1h5h4tiodo/7282428189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/kadotavivibodoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd1c8a316293b355c9f347a266c6cb6f/91301799414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dafed6bac1---12725164517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca368f1d25---13068364824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1967.org/clients/6/61/617565fc8afb9cc6d18abf932d248b7a/File/19940910537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba19cabaad0---1262129331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d00fe85d686---vexitaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e140ebc4cb---nexurixov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3070d0f9076bee7d1c18e38102f3ee39/99548426939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/le2o7dencemvbfmupb31dtcjas/medoweputog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5gc8nufl1jjhmjn2ufsddjbft/89869324846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/9923049950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oiddmaasunuea07r5ksu5k7cik/xevisexagagesidagobuvoduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000105d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105D7 11344 bytes
SHA-256: f8fa2b8f8cd39fcab2c9a1e9e97dd9547f575fad9f6aaec584078a318a036d75
font_01_sfnt_off00011ffe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FFE 17428 bytes
SHA-256: 4173944d70cbb6ea6a6743f0aa5b74af4d51ddd2b418fc0de8929130bb63b391
font_02_sfnt_off00014da7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1